Tagged: fintech adoption

March 29, 2023 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New Zealand-headquartered green fintech firm Cogo conducted a survey to uncover Japanese customer attitudes towards banks and financial apps “helping them drive sustainable lifestyles.” Administered in collaboration with strategic design and sustainability consultancy Fabric, the survey “engaged 1,966 participants who use banking and financial apps… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global payments technology company, Brightwell, announced that it is making it easier for fintechs, money transmitters, and prepaid and banking providers to integrate real-time payment technology into their solutions utilizing ReadyRemit via Visa Direct. Through this collaboration, Brightwell customers can “launch a fully managed cross-border… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Onbe, a disbursements financial technology company, announces the launch of Send to Wallet. An “early to market” offering, Send to Wallet, gives users the ability “to add their virtual card quickly, simply, and securely to their preferred mobile wallet, from a web browser, without downloading… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ZEBEDEE, a payments processor, has announced an overhaul of how users can move money across the world. The upgraded feature for borderless transactions showcases “the power and potential of global, friction-free and currency-agnostic payments and represents a significant improvement and simplification of how anyone can… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Inpay’s Annual Report for 2022, released at the company’s AGM in Copenhagen, Denmark, announced solid results “for the international payments firm and outlined plans for significant future growth within their UK office (London) and internationally across Asia, the Middle East and Europe.” As noted in… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex recently announced Brex travel, a premium travel management experience that delivers comprehensive booking and management capabilities, all in the Brex dashboard and mobile app, “with unbiased global inventory, self-service trip changes, and 24/7 agent support.” With the addition of travel, Brex is “extending Empower… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DailyPay claims that it continues to innovate its technology platform with a new function created “to tackle a growing problem among tipped employees within the hospitality industry.” For parking valets, restaurant servers, porters, and hotel concierges, the recent trend for customers “to go cashless can… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rakuten Group, Inc. recently announced that the Tokyo Stock Exchange approved the new listing of common shares of Rakuten Bank, Ltd., a consolidated subsidiary of the company, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market. The listing date on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market is… Read More

March 25, 2023 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Berlin-based Fintech Raisin has raised €60 million in a series E funding round, from existing and new investors. The global savings and investment specialist recently “exceeded 1 million customers, for which a total of €850 million in interest has been generated since founding the… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TYB is now available on the Shopify App Store, making it the “first” end-to-end Web3 community-powered loyalty solution available to Shopify’s merchants through an Avalanche-based platform. The app allows Shopify merchants “to implement TYB’s community-integrated-commerce tools to directly connect with and reward fans for taking… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On a mission to “revolutionize” the way companies collect payments in Latin America, Toku, the platform optimizing collections for subscription companies, announced that it has raised USD $7 million. The investment round was “led by North American venture capital firm F-Prime Capital, accompanied by Wollef,… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Billie, the provider of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment solutions for business customers, and Mollie, which claims to be one of the fastest-growing payment service providers in Europe, have launched their pan-European partnership in order to bring Buy Now, Pay Later payment solutions to… Read More

March 22, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Qolo, which claims to be one of the leading omnichannel payments and card issuing processors, recently announced its partnership with PayQuicker, a key player focused on financial technology solutions for the global payouts market, in order “to provide unified disbursement services to PayQuicker and its… Read More

March 22, 2023 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alloy, the Identity Decisioning Platform for banks and fintech companies, today announced its partnership with Kyckr, a corporate KYC company providing businesses with real-time data on prospective and existing customers and suppliers. The partnership “gives Alloy’s 350+ clients — including Carta, Ramp, and Brex —… Read More

March 22, 2023 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KreditBee, which claims to be one of India’s leading fintech platforms, announced its partnership with PayU, a digital payments solution provider. Together, they offer customers the option “to convert their online purchases worth between ₹2400 up to ₹2 lakhs into easy cardless EMIs during checkout.”… Read More

March 22, 2023 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Card issuing and processing pioneer Enfuce has teamed up with UK neobanking start-up Science Card in order to launch a payments card, which forms “part of a new infrastructure for funding scientific research, designed to create the future earlier rather than later.” Science Card’s customers… Read More

March 22, 2023 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyLion (NYSE: ML), a Fintech offering personalized services, has announced the rebrand of “Even Financial,” the embedded finance platform for enterprise businesses, to “Engine by MoneyLion.” The Engine by MoneyLion brand is “designed to reflect the expanded breadth and capabilities of the combined company, while continuing… Read More

March 20, 2023 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sopra Banking Software (SBS), the global fintech company creating a new breed of banks to power financial services in every industry, announced the consumer-focused findings of its second annual Digital Banking Experience (DBX) Report. This year’s report, “produced in partnership with Forrester and IPSOS, reveals… Read More

March 20, 2023 @ 9:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ForwardAI, a Fintech providing aggregated access to accounting and business data and analysis, announces the release of Precise API V2, the update to its streamlined API solution that connects and aggregates accounting data. The Precise API V2 provides financial institutions, fintechs, and lenders “with access… Read More

March 20, 2023 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Engage People, which claims to be the only loyalty network that enables program members to pay with points (PwP) directly at checkout, “reported 22 billion points redeemed and a total of 1.8 million in transactions across its loyalty network in 2022.” As the demand for… Read More